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The future is never clear; you pay a very high price in the stock market for a cheery consensus. Uncertainty actually is the friend of the buyer of long-term values.

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If, when making a stock investment, you're not considering holding it at least ten years, don't waste more than ten minutes considering it.

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We've got more productive capacity now than we ever have.

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You can't make a good deal with a bad person.

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Risk comes from not knowing what you are doing so wide diversification is only required when investors are ignorant. You only have to do a very few things in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

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I'm not worried they're all about the investments we make. I mean, listen, this country - we've got $46,000 or $47,000 of GDP per capita. Now, we've done pretty darn well. We'll do better in the future.

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We have provided capital here with a couple of institutions recently. The Federal government did that in the '30s for the RFC and I think there could well be a proper role for government in that.

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Whatever you like to do, make it a hobby and whatever the world likes to do, make it a business.

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I find that the standard of living does not go up in proportion with the cost of living. The trick in life is to do things that are fun all the time.

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Focus alone is not enough; putting in the time to commit is also crucial to achieve success.

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Buy into a company because you want to own it, not because you want the stock to go up.

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Getting fired can produce a particularly bountiful payday for a CEO. Indeed, he can 'earn' more in that single day, while cleaning out his desk, than an American worker earns in a lifetime of cleaning toilets. Forget the old maxim about nothing succeeding like success: Today, in the executive suite, the all-too-prevalent rule is that nothing succeeds like failure.

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Learning how to live is much more important than learning how to make a living.

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What's nice about investing is you don't have to swing at every pitch.

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I always invest in companies an idiot could run, because one day one will.

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Inactivity strikes us as intelligent behavior.

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The 19th century belonged to England, the 20th century belonged to the U.S., and the 21st century belongs to China. Invest accordingly.

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Equities will do well over time - you just have to avoid getting excited when other people are getting excited.

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You don't need to be a rocket scientist. Investing is not a game where the guy with the 160 IQ beats the guy with 130 IQ.

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The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is.

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